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ALEXEY
BOTVINOV
PEOPLE'S ARTIST OF UKRAINE
ALEXEY
BOTVINOV
PIANIST
Rachmaninoff – Elegie in E-flat minor Op.3 No.1. Piano Alexey Botvinov

BIOGRAPHY

Alexey Botvinov

Alexey Botvinov is an exceptional pianist, musical innovator and producer. The most acclaimed Ukrainian pianist, Botvinov is one of the best specialists in Rachmaninoff music worldwide. Botvinov is the only pianist in the world who performed Bach‘s masterpiece „Goldberg Variations“ more than 300 times on stage. Alexey Botvinov is initiator and president of “Odessa Classics” – one of the best European music festivals.

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EVENTS

Date
Name
Location
upcoming
10.07.2025 / 18:00
Piano romantique at Festival Musiques Vivantes
Saint Léger Church, Ebreuil, France

The famous Ukrainian pianist plays Brahms, Chopin, Silvestrov and Rachmaninoff.

 

 

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Piano romantique at Festival Musiques Vivantes
upcoming
09.08.2025 / 20:30
IL GRANDE REPERTORIO PER PIANOFORTE
Church of San Rocco, Cavazzo Carnico, Italy

Alexey Botvinove presents Piano rezital

 

 

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IL GRANDE REPERTORIO PER PIANOFORTE
upcoming
23.08.2025 / 19:30
«Botvinov and Friends»: Alissa Margulis
Tonhalle, Zurich, Switzerland

The renowned pianist and festival director Alexey Botvinov is launching a new concert series "Botvinov and Friends" in Zurich. The aim of the project is to bring classical music to a young and broad audience at a high level in an innovative and traditional way.

This evening Alexey Botvinov will perform together with violinist Alissa Margulis.

Organizer Odessa Classics.

 

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«Botvinov and Friends»: Alissa Margulis
upcoming
05.09.2025 / 19:30
Odessa Classics at Brugg festival
Reformed City Church, Brugg, Switzerland

Odessa Classics is visiting Brugg festival

 

 

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Odessa Classics at Brugg festival
upcoming
16.09.2025 / 18:00
Music in GULAG
Hans-Huber-Saal, Basel, Switzerland

Alexey Botvinov and Mikhail Shishkin present a musical-literary evening

 

 

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Music in GULAG
upcoming
18.09.2025 / 19:30
Between Conflict and Religiosity
Hans-Huber-Saal, Basel, Switzerland

Alexey Botvinov presents the program "Between Conflict and Religiosity"

 

 

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Between Conflict and Religiosity
upcoming
19.09.2025 / 19:30
Pianissimo! at Verein Herbst in der Helferei
Zürich Conservatory, Switzerland

Alexey Botvinov was honored with the highest award by the Société Arts-Sciences-Lettres in Paris in October 2024. Arguably the most renowned Ukrainian pianist of our time, he has close ties to Zurich; among other, he organizes his international music festival Odessa Classics.

 

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Pianissimo! at Verein Herbst in der Helferei
upcoming
21.09.2025 / 11:00
Moments of Memory (V) at Beethovenfest
Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Germany

Valentin Silvestrov’s “Moments of Memory” (V) premiered in Istanbul in June 2025 and will be presented for the first time in Germany at the Beethovenfest Bonn.

 

 

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Moments of Memory (V) at Beethovenfest
upcoming
22.10.2025 / 19:30
«Botvinov and Friends»: Burhan Öçal
Konservatorium Florhof, Zurich, Switzerland

The renowned pianist and festival director Alexey Botvinov is launching a new concert series "Botvinov and Friends" in Zurich. The aim of the project is to bring classical music to a young and broad audience at a high level in an innovative and traditional way.

This evening Alexey Botvinov will perform together with Burhan Öçal.

Organizer Odessa Classics.

 

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past
05.07.2025 / 18:00
Moments of Memory (V) at Wonderfeel fest
Wonderfeel fest, Baarn, Netherlands

Valentin Silvestrov composed Moments of Memory (V) on commission from six European festivals: Istanbul Music Festival (Turkey), Wonderfeel (Netherlands), Walden Festival (Belgium), Off the Beaten Path Festival (Bulgaria), Beehoven Fest Bonn (Germany) and Odessa Classics (Ukraine).

 

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Moments of Memory (V) at Wonderfeel fest

PROJECTS

International music festival

„Odessa Classics“ has already become a serious competitor to the established high-level cultural and musical European Festivals.

In the past three years the promoters took great effort in organizing an impressively versatile program of highest standards. Its enormous success justifies to spread the news as a precious insider tip to the Western world.

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Piano competition in memory of Serafima Mogilevskaya

Young Ukrainian Pianists Competition took place for the 1st time from 26th till 28th of May as a part of The IV ODESSA CLASSICS Festival. The Contest is a tribute to the memory of the outstanding teacher, professor of the Odessa Conservatoire Serafima Mogilevskaya. She brought up a whole galaxy of talented pianists with an international fame.

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Goldberg. Reloaded

Проект «Перезагрузка» даёт то, чего так давно не хватало для придания классике нового дыхания. Уникальный революционный проект двух выдающихся музыкантов современности – украинского пианиста Алексея Ботвинова и турецкого перкуссиониста Бурхана Очала – был начат в 2010 году.

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DISCOGRAPHY

MUSIC FOR A NEW CENTURY

Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 00028948641284

VALENTIN SILVESTROV - Daniel Hope · Alexey Botvinov

Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 00028948637317

MUSIC FOR UKRAINE - Daniel Hope · Alexey Botvinov

Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 00028948630226

SCHNITTKE - Works for Violin and Piano

Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 00028948392346

Botvinov plays Rachmaninov

nurkultur 0203AB

VIDEO

Rachmaninoff - Prelude in B flat major Op.23 No.2
Prokofiev - Sonata No.7 Op.83, mov. III Precipitato
4 Elements

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PRESS

World press review

KOLNISCHEN RUNDUSCHAU, 10 October 2006
“Alexey Botvinov is a magnificent pianist”.

TAGES ANZEIGER, Zurich, 5 September 2006
“…performance was so convincingly pure and sincere”.

BASLER ZEITUNG, Basel, 5 September 2006
“Splendid performance!”

Music, a planetary language

Destinations. Ukraine introduces one of the best pianists of our time, Odessa native Alexey Botvinov. Since 2014, every summer Alexey has been hosting the Odessa Classics International Music Festival in his native Odessa, whose popularity has been growing exponentially. Over five incomplete years, Odessa Classics has joined the major league of music festivals in Eastern Europe.

Ukrainian pianist Botvinov sets world record in Berlin.

Prominent Ukrainian musician Alexey Botvinov is the only pianist in the world who has performed Bach's most complicated masterpiece Goldberg Variations 300 times.

The jubilee 300th performance took place in the Berlin Philharmonic chamber music hall on Wednesday evening.

Missa Pacis - world premiere in Odessa

For the first time in Ukraine and around the world heard the music that combines classical traditions of Western Mass, and the elements of piano improvisation. Artists resumed at a concert almost forgotten tradition in the modern classical concert practice. At the same time, the author of the work, Günther Schumacher, was present at the premiere.

Press Archive

Articles published in 2012 and earlier